I know lots of you out there don't like Family Guy, because, well, you are allergic to jokes or something. Whatever. But if you don't think that this is awesome, then I don't know if we can be friends anymore, internet.


And unless I'm reading the political climate incorrectly, the tide may be turning on legalization.  But don't take my word for it: here's what the nerds over at FiveThirtyEight have to say about it.

Back in February, we detailed how record numbers of Americans -- although certainly not yet a majority -- support the idea of legalizing marijuana. It turns out that there may be a simple explanation for this: an ever-increasing fraction of Americans have used pot at some point in their lifetimes. The following chart details marijuana usage rates by age as determined from a 2007 survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:

The peak time for pot usage occurs at or about age 20 -- a period known to most of us as "college" -- before declining fairly rapidly throughout one's 20s and then plateauing from roughly age 30 through age 50.

More important to the policy debate, however, may be the fraction of adults who have used marijuana at any point in their lifetimes. [...] The key feature of this distribution is how rapidly lifetime usage rates decline after about age 55 or so. About half of 55-year-olds have used marijuana at some point in their lives, but only about 20 percent of 65-year-olds have.

Like with civil rights for women, civil rights for minorities, and civil rights for homosexuals, the legalization of marijuana is inevitable. As more conservative older generations give way to the liberal offspring (and their long hair and loud music and their being all over my lawn get off of it), social progress can finally be made.